Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-05-28
MAY %, 1877.
NEIGHBoRlnG NEWS.

lFFons The .Ssephertlsto Register. |
/ Passengers on the railroad train!
passing through Shepherdstown eager
| ly buy the strings of bass that are
taken out to the station to be sold.
The BerryvilIe Courier says that 6
colored man named George Hull
caught in the Shenandoah river a carr
that weighed q pounds. This beats
George Cookus's big fish considerably.
The editor of the South Branch In
tellige3lcer says: 1--WE were shown
Saturday, by Mr.. Bobert Fisher, q
piece of petrlfied snake taken out of q
mine at Davis, which he brought home
with him. Itwas about 10 inches in
circumference, black, very heavy, and
presents a Illuminated surface. Mr..
Fisher says the miners at Davis have
exhumed several from 16 to 20 feet
long, at great depths, and they look
as natural as life, even the eyes being
perfectly preserved"
On last Friday. while assisting in
making up freight train at Roanoke,
Va, J. E. w. Rogers, a brakeman on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, was
caught between the cars and instantly
killed, his body being horribly man.
gled. He was aged twenty-one years
and had been in the employ of the
Shenandoah Valley only two months.
When visiting aprintlng Office keep
these rules in view: Enter softly ;
shut the door; sit down quietly sub
scribe for the paper and pay in adj
vance; keep six feet from the devil ;
don't whistle; hands of the manu-
script; don't talk to the compositors ;
don't read the type on the galleys;
and, above all things, don't ask what's
the news. Reform y f 4
We were very sorry thai our pack
age of papers for Kearneysville were
not received at that place in proper
time last week. Some rascal of a
clerk must have run the mail sack
a through a threshing machine, for
several packages were bursted open
and their contents scattered after they
left our office. We are thinking of
sending our papers through the mail
in an iron-bound keg-it takes some
thing like that to have them delivered
safely. III
BARN RAIsING.-About seventy
five neighbors gathered at the farm of
Mr.. VIM. r. Turner, near Shepherds
town, last Tuesday, to assist him at a
barn raising. With such efficient help
the framework of the structure was
raised without mishap, and Mr.. Turn
err will soor have good barn finished.
Messrs. J. d. Derr and Melvin Rome
nous are the carpenters.
TEACHERS INsTITUTE.-Hon. B..
5. Morgan, State Superintendent of
Free Schools, has selected Prof. JOS
eph McMurran of this place to con-
duct the teachers institute for Jeffer-
son County, which will be held in
Shepherdstown July 18th to 18th.
THE SCHOOL ELECTIoN.-The cleo
ton for County superintendent of
Free Schools and members of the
board of Education held in this coun-
ty on Tuesday resulted in the election
of Mr.. Emanuel Shaeffer, of Halltown,
for County Superintendent, by ma
jority of a couple of hundred. Up to
the time of going to press we had not
received the full returns. In Shep-
district Prof. Joseph Nc
Murran was elected president of the
board, and Mr.. N. S. J. Strider COM
Charlestown district, John
T. Colston president and Bacon Yates
commissioner; Middleway district,
J. P. Kearfoot president, and Moses
E. Trussell commissioner Harper's
Ferry, S. V. Yantis president, and
Richard Henderson commissioner.